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December 5th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Matthew A. Wilkinson – Namers

  • Matthew A. Wilkinson
  • Namers
  • (Self Released)
  • Grand Prairie, AB
  • ::web/sounds::
From the brittle hands of Jesse Locke:
Surprise grip of the year. Softly diffusing from the northwestern margins of the Swan City (Grand Prairie), Matthew A. Wilkinson has upended Weird Canada HQ with his numinous folk incantations. Wordless murmurs melt into wasted drum circles, twinkling pianos and bent acoustic chant, as this boreal basement ritual summons malevolent deities of wavering gender. Songwriter, filmmaker and maybe even oracle, Wilkinson wields an unruly power. Lend him your ears.

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Matthew A. Wilkinson – Hand Over Hand

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Matthew A. Wilkinson – Like This

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Matthew A. Wilkinson – Yes, My Knees Say

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November 4th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Bayonets!!! – Two Songs Regarding Faith Mountain

From the eagle faith of Jesse Locke:
Edmonton’s high drama manic panic punks are alive and kicking at the pricks on this Camaro red two-song flexi. Spasmodic bursts of windmill riffitude, boneheaded breakdowns and absurdist drill sergeant gang chants in a minute or less are all you’re going to get on this collectible sneak peek at the upcoming “long” player, and you’ll spoon it down with a grin. “This must be what it’s like playing chess with your mom / This must be what it’s like playing dress-up with your dad.” Bayonets!!! are proud parents of a Drop D student.

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Bayonets!!! – Pope of Eagleface

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Bayonets!!! – Taking Faith Mountain by Force

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August 25th, 2011

Video :: The Ether – I Have Seen the Smile [Dir. Jacqueline Lachance]

  • The Ether
  • I Have Seen the Smile
  • [Dir. By: Jacqueline Lachance]
  • Montreal, QC
  • ::web/visuals::
From the stop-motion back-rub of Aaron Levin:
An audacious chronicle of the family Solanaceae. Jacqueline Lachance takes The Ether’s infinite disharmony into ridiculous arrays of VHS mashery, forcing the stop-motion absurdity through burnt colour palettes and neck-churning cut-ups. Wither beside the translucent Tomato-narrative and abandon all attempts to capture the disparate fiction. Shred.

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May 18th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Velvet Chrome – Hall of Mirrors

From the toxic concoction of Jesse Locke:
Just in time for tour, Frank Hobo and the infamous guitar shredder JLK drop this CD (remember those?) of haunted ramblings down the dustbowl backroads. As Velvet Chrome, the power couple combines sensibilities to create a toxic concoction of No Wave skree and ugly Americana laced with hits from the cosmic blotter. Though the majority of these workouts are propelled by primitive drum beats and detuned six-string strategies, seven-minute drifter “Glass Maze” is a primarily vocal-based drone, and closer “Miles Away” is one of the most beautiful pieces of Motorik bliss this side of Neu! 75. A merch table must.

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Velvet Chrome – Devil’s Gold

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Velvet Chrome – Miles Away

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March 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Aunty Panty – AP EP

  • Aunty Panty
  • AP EP
  • (yo’ mama$ ¢redit ¢ard rekkid$)
  • Saskatoon, SK
  • ::web/sounds::
From the red-ink briefs of Aaron Levin:
Scanner-destroying sans-wave from the antagonizing wastelands of Saskatoon. Aunty Panty’s digital halo debut is a dualic descent into derelict guitar destruction and vocal annihilation. Hammered strikes against their metallic strings clangor amongst the concrete waves of red-lined vocals and four-four drummery. A severe peak into the marginalized sounds running rampant in our wheat-filled prairies.

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Aunty Panty – Mal Au Coeur

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Aunty Panty – Cunt

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February 2nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Induced Labour – Untitled 7″

From the ritual bloodlettings of Jessica Faulds:
Borne on tsunamis of guitar malice, Leslie Predy’s gremlin mutterings harsh the mellow of the past year’s beach-tinged zeitgeist. Funhouse mirror distortion perverts carnivalesque hooks, begetting a potential soundtrack to Pogo The Clown’s ritual bloodlettings. The face-liquefying thrashery is referenced in the cover’s flesh-drippings, and Induced Labour boil it all down into a thick, bloody gravy. Serve hot on a bed of hardboiled terror.

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Induced Labour – Whore Eyes

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Induced Labour – Condo Party

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December 8th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Catbag – Creamweaving

Catbag
Creamweaving
(Claire Dragon Records)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the cream weaver of Aaron Levin:
Apocalyptica within Halifax’s midnight Tiki bar. Your math professor is wailing on a saxophone while the pulsing flares of cosmic debris pierce the midnight sky. Sweaty palms grip the last vestige of a shattered harbour. Shells. You sip fruit loops from a half-back crab bowl; sour flashes of crustaceous laced sugar cubes course through your glands, sifting through your intestine. The droning, violent saxophone and battered drums usher the completion of digestion; unwilling to push forward within the rolling, thunderous bass. Languish. Until the waves of post-millennia nu-lounge tether you to oblivion. OBEY.

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Catbag – SOLARTRASH

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Catbag – JESUS GOD, A FATLIP

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November 27th, 2009

Review :: Nü Sensae – Nü Sensae

Nü Sensae - Nü Sensae Nü Sensae
Nü Sensae
(Isolated Now Waves (INW #127))
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From the stressed-graduate-student existence of Joni Sadler:
Eschewing the cheeky sloppiness that often accompanies the ‘weird punk‘ aesthetic, Vancouver’s Nü Sensae lets loose with a visceral attack of noisy jams that are over much too quick for their own good. The eight songs crammed onto this one-sided 12″ are short bursts of frantic drumming, dirty fuzzed-out bass riffs, and Andrea Luki?’s snarled vocals, all packaged together into a wholly ear-blistering listen. When they turn up the rage and Luki? unleashes that scream of hers, she sounds like the single most badass frontwoman of any band, ever. This is punk rock that isn’t afraid to be abrasive; the duo takes pride in the rough edges and lo-fi grit of their songs, and rightfully so. If only more bands had as much guts as these kids do and the sense of recklessness that actually lets them pull it all off without sounding forced. This record leaves little doubt that Nü Sensae means business.
[Levin's Note: Every time I listen to this 12" I feel like I'm getting punched in the face. Very limited pressing. GRIP OR REGRET.]

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Nü Sensae – Raven Tussle

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Nü Sensae – Peter Tripp

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October 1st, 2009

Review :: Wasted Widow – Les Douches Romaines

Wasted Widow - Les Douches Romaines Wasted Widow
Les Douches Romaines
(Hobo Cult)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


Rivaling Fixture Records as best-designed multi-format boutique label in Canada, Hobo Cult really delivered with a small package of incredibly wyld and strange music; Wasted Widow being the first of many reviews to come. Caught in the imaginative triangulation of punk, noise-psych, and experimentalism, Les Douches Romaines captures a unique moment in uncategorized music. No-gaze? Adjective-wave? Who cares? Classification will certainly fail when filing away Wasted Widow’s wailing distorted guitar, granular noise, vocals delayed beyond calculation, and incongruent notions of song structure. It’s droney and psychedelic and noisey and weird and awesome! I had to have a time-out in my apartment and re-calibrate my association with commonly held notions of “genre” and “taste.” Incredible (no hyperbole). And, yes, those drums are looped in Skyscrape My Shapes. Wasted, indeed!

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Wasted Widow – Skyscrape My Shapes

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Wasted Widow – Heroin Quest (w/ Clef Guitarson)

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Wasted Widow – Love Child (w/ Clef Guitarson)

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Wasted Widow – Hospital Memorium (exit)

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August 5th, 2009

To the point.

Bayonets!!! - To The Point Bayonets!!!
To The Point
(Bart Records)
Edmonton, AB
::web/sounds::

Eleven thirty-second art-punk anthems straddling a thin-line between no-pop and art-wave (it would have been a lot less interesting for me to say “no-wave and art-pop,” so deal with it). Take ex-Mark Birtles Project and Wolfnote members and put them through the Homosexuals‘ school of everything-under-a-minute rock-anthemy as taught by Devo. You might be close. There’s nothing frivolous and only the good art is spared. It’s music; to the point. They obviously have a sense of humour, but the not the kind that gives you the “no” feeling. Bayonets!!! give me a “yes” feeling.

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Bayonets!!! – What Is It

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Bayonets!!! – Spank Lloyd Wright

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